Los Angeles Tofu Festival, usually known as Tofu Festival or Tofu Fest, is a weekend matsuri held every August in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles from 1995 to 2007. Tofu Festival's 2006 celebrations were held on August 12th and 13th along with Nisei Week. Due to ongoing redevelopment in Little Tokyo there is no longer enough space to hold a festival of the size of Tofu Fest, and so it has now been cancelled.
Tofu is the primary ingredient of dishes and the cultural icon of the festival, which focuses on innovative Japanese and American cuisine within an obon-like atmosphere . Due to Tofu Fest's wider cultural and commercial appeal, along larger funds to work with (Tofu Fest charges admission into its area , it has outgrown Nisei Week's Street Arts Fair in booths — Tofu Fest's first fair had over 8,000 visitors and over 26,000 visitors by 2004
